Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda (born 26 July 1939) is a Brazilian writer, essayist, editor and literary critic. Her research activity focuses on the relationship between culture and development, particularly with regard to poetry, feminism, gender and ethnic relations, marginalized cultures, and digital culture.

Life and career

Buarque de Hollanda was born in Ribeirão Preto. She graduated in classic literature at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro ( pt, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio) is a Jesuit, Catholic, pontifical university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the joint responsibility of the Catholic Ar ...

, has a master's degree and a doctorate in Brazilian literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she is professor emerita of theory of culture, and a postgrad at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. Among the works she wrote or organized are the books ''26 poetas hoje'' (1975), an anthology of Brazilian underground poets from the mimeograph generation, and ''"As 29 poetas hoje"'' (2021), an anthology of women poets; the series ''Pensamento Feminista Hoje''; ''Asdrúbal trouxe o trombone - memórias de uma trupe solitária de comediantes que abalou os anos 70; Rachel,Rachel;'' ''Explosão Feminista''; ''Cultura e Participação nos anos 60;'' ''Pós-Modernismo e Política;'' and ''ENTER -Antologia Digital.'' On 20 April 2023 she was elected as the 30th chair of the

Brazilian Academy of Letters The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) ( English: ''Brazilian Academy of Letters'') is a Brazilian literature, literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century. The first president, Machado de Assis, declared its found ...

, succeeding

Nélida Piñon Nélida Piñon Nélida Piñon (3 May 1937 – 17 December 2022) was a Brazilian author and professor. At the time of her death, Piñon was "considered among the foremost writers in Brazil today". Life Piñon was born in 1937 in Rio de Janeiro. He ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buarque de Hollanda, Heloisa 1939 births Living people Brazilian editors Brazilian essayists Brazilian feminists Brazilian literary critics Brazilian women editors Brazilian women essayists Brazilian women critics Brazilian women literary critics 20th-century Brazilian women writers 21st-century Brazilian women writers Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni Academic staff of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni People from Ribeirão Preto Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters